Ogden's Nut Gone Flake lyrics

[This is a song about a London prostitute, so contains a lot of slang and

sexual innuendo, not all of which I understand!]

There she is parading on the quayside
You can find her every night

Ah, waiting for a stevedore from Tyneside -

Why it's Rene, the docker's delight!

Well, if you just got off an oil tanker

And you've got the readies (in the bin?) [readies = ready cash]

Written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Laine.

From 'Ogdens Nut Gone Flake'

There's wheat in the field

And water in the stream

And salt in the mine

And an aching in me.

I can longer stand and wonder

Cos I'm driven by this hunger.

So I'll jug some water, bake some flour,

Store some salt and wait the hour.

When thinking of love,

Love is thinking for me

Here am I

Tiny Fly

May I share your Shepherd's Pie? (English meal, mashed potato & mince
meat)

What is this strange voice I hear?

Here I am

Look This Way

In the landscape on your tray

There's no need to ask a silly question

If I were you I hope you'd do the same

There's no doubt I'd help a hungry fly

To see you in a fix it's really such a shame

The Journey

If tomorrow was today

It would yesterday

The sun is surely just a thought away

Where visions that men fail

To put to words to tale

And music that they try but cannot (p)lay

You're right it's just a dream, your company so kind

Hold very tightly please and we shall go out.

There was an old man who lived in the greenwood

nobody knew him or what he had done

but mothers words say to their children beware of Mad John.

John would sing with the birds in the morning

laugh with the wind in the cold end of night

but people from behind their curtains, said he's not quite right.

John had it sussed he was living the life of a tramp

Happy Days Toy Town

Life is just a bowl of All-Bran

You wake up every morning and it's there
So live as only you can

It's all about enjoy it 'cos ever since you saw it

There aint no one can take it away.

So life is just a bowl of All-Bran - very true!

What you say has made it very clear

To be sure I'll live as best as I can

But how can I remember to keep it all together